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- Title
Downregulation of LKB1 promotes tumor progression and predicts unfavorable prognosis in patients with glioma.
- Authors
JIEHAO HUANG; HONGWU CHEN; QUANTANG WEI; ZIHENG ZHANG; ZHIWEI ZHONG; YIMIN XU
- Abstract
The liver kinase B1 (LKB1)/5'-adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase pathway has been reported to facilitate glioma cell growth by improving growth conditions. To investigate the clinical significance of LKB1 in human gliomas western blot analysis and quantitative polymerase chain reaction experiments were performed. The present study demonstrated that LKB1 expression was markedly decreased at the messenger RNA and protein levels in 30 freshly prepared glioma tissues, compared with non-neoplastic brain tissues (P<0.001). Subsequently, immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that LKB1 immunostaining in 180 glioma tissues was significantly decreased compared with that in the corresponding non-neoplastic brain tissues (P<0.001). Notably, this downregulation frequently occurred in high-grade gliomas, and statistical analysis revealed that low LKB1 expression was significantly associated with large tumor size (P=0.02), advanced World Health Organization grade (P=0.006) and low Karnofsky performance scale (P=0.01). The prognostic value of LKB1 expression in patients with glioma was additionally evaluated using Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazards regression models. As a result, the overall survival time of patients with glioma with low LKB1 expression was shorter compared with that of patients with high LKB1 expression (P<0.001), and low LKB1 expression also indicated decreased survival time in patients with high-grade glioma (P<0.001). Collectively, the present data indicated that the downregulation of LKB1 was closely associated with the malignant degree of human gliomas, exhibiting lower expression at a higher grade. Notably, LKB1 may serve as a potential prognostic biomarker for patients with glioma following surgery.
- Subjects
GLIOMAS; CANCER invasiveness; WESTERN immunoblotting; POLYMERASE chain reaction; BIOMARKERS; PROGNOSIS
- Publication
Oncology Letters, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 3, p1688
- ISSN
1792-1074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3892/ol.2017.5631